Code Compliance Department

Overview

The Code Compliance Department enforces housing, property maintenance, sanitation, and zoning codes to promote a safe, clean, and healthy environment. This includes open or structurally unsound vacant structures, overgrown lots with litter and debris, derelict or abandoned vehicles and unsafe occupied residential dwellings. It utilizes the Recorder’s Court of Chatham County in the code enforcement process as required and contracts for the elimination of unsafe and unsanitary conditions resulting from code violations. The Department also educates the public on code compliance requirements.